An abridged of Wagner’s Ring, The Colón Ring directed by Valentina Carrasco released

The Colón Ring is an abridged seven-hour version of Wagner’s epic Ring, premiered at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in November last year. The performance is available on DVD and Blu-ray on June 3 in the UK – coinciding with the composer’s official bicentenary – along with a documentary, ‘The Colón Ring – Wagner in Buenos Aires’, capturing backstage drama that constitutes a saga in its own right. The Colón Ring might seem an impossible feat to stage Wagner’s Ring in one evening. ‘It’s not a weak piece, the Ring,’ the director Valentina Carrasco says toward the beginning of the documentary. ‘It will survive all of this.’

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